David Bowie fascinates me, but this one fascinates me a little less. Don't get me wrong, this album is great, but the song quality on this just seems a little lower than some of his other well-renowned albums. The mixing on Quicksand is really weird and Fill Your Heart is honestly just a perplexing addition.

This does however possess maybe my favorite Bowie song, the absolute masterful Life on Mars?, as well as some other ones I love, like Oh! You Pretty Things and Song for Bob Dylan. ... read more

What a way to start a career, man. Godspeed You! Black Emperor's 1997 debut effort is a depressing monolith that sucks the hope and joy out of anyone listening. Apart from a few waning moments on East Hastings, this album is just pure despair for 63 consecutive minutes. From the opening monologue on The Dead Flag Blues until the triumphant ending of Providence, GY!BE paint a picture of a hopeless and apocalyptic scene.

This lacks the emotional highs and joyous crescendos present on Lift ... read more

Given how disappointed I was by Atavista, I approached this album with a little more apprehension for a Childish Gambino project than I normally would, but I am so thankful that he went out with such a bang.

This is all over the place, in a good way, which makes it honestly really hard to describe because it's basically impossible to try and pin down one genre for this whole thing, it really covers all the bases. This has elements of pop punk, psychedelic rock, rap, indie rock, dance, ... read more

This has been an album I was planning to listen to for a while, and I was not at all disappointed. I understand the hype!

Electropop is a genre that I almost never listen to because I usually don't find myself enjoying it very much, I usually think of club music as a genre meant to please the masses by pleasing nobody, essentially just being hard to dislike but not really a genre that anyone listens to outside of, well, the club. My mind has definitely been changed.

This is a benchmark ... read more

Woke up today and felt like listening to nose rock. While this album is solid all around, this album is really able to shine starting around track four during its vast sections with sparse instrumentation. The musicianship on songs like China Steps and Locust Valley evoke Unwound resemblances, and Bells is one of the more impressive and calming ambient-esque instrumental songs I've heard.

The only part of this that I take any issue with is that the vocals can sometimes take me out of the ... read more

I'm fully convinced that during this time period in the late 90s to late 2000s Jeff Tweedy was completely incapable of writing a bad song. Wilco's 2009 release is a great package of very manageable affluent family dinner indie rock. Sure their noisy edge might've given way for a more consistent sound (this is no YHF or A Ghost is Born after all), but I'm very happy to listen to the rest of Wilco's discography if it sounds like this.

While most of the songs are good, ... read more

Truthfully I've always had a soft spot for country themes in rock, Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection was one of my first "favorite" albums, and recently Wilco has become one of my favorite bands. I hadn't listened to this before yesterday, but this album feels so familiar, like I've been listening to it for years. This is exactly the type of album I've been longing to hear out of this genre.

This album is basically perfect, and that's established from ... read more

This album started with three awesome songs in Tender, Bugman, & Coffee & TV, each of which I felt ran maybe a little long, but I didn't mind. As the album went on, I became less and less convinced of the sound on this album. It was solid, for sure, but everything felt really drawn out.

Any indication of Blur's sound that I had accrued through hearing Song 2 basically everywhere were thrown out of the window once I heard Tender, which is basically just a seven minute gospel ... read more

This was similar in a lot of ways to my first time listening to Cocteau Twins' Heaven or Las Vegas, that is to say that this is absolutely ascendant and I was immediately enamored with the sound. Myth is one of the best openers to an album I've ever heard, and it was a 100/100 off rip for me which almost never happens. The rest of the album does not let up, it's just an unmatched level of quality.

It's really hard for me to think of this as anything but a perfect album, ... read more

The biggest factor for me with enjoying hip hop records is definitely the beat, if I find beats inventive and interesting, my enjoyment of a song is almost always heightened. Though I've never heard a full Lupe project, I've heard that this is a strength of his. This album has no shortage of amazing beats and rapping, and isn't overdone with like 20 tracks.

Really just genuinely awesome record, not a moment I could point to that feels weak at all. This is so extremely indie and really feels like a perfect introductory album to indie rock.

After Lil Yachty released the incredible psychedelia-infused Let's Start Here in the beginning of 2023, my interest was immediately piqued and my expectations were sky high, so seeing this new album announced and hearing it likened to Talk Talk's post-rock classic Spirit of Eden had me hyped as ever.

Unfortunately, my expectations were not matched, and I can't help but feel a little disappointed. The production is nice enough, and there's definitely potential in a ... read more

I can't say I was really expecting that much from a 2024 Wilco EP but my expectations have been exceeded tonight! While there's really only four songs on here, excluding the experimental interludes Livid and Inside the Bell Bones, Wilco don't waste a second getting to the good stuff. This is non-stop fun.

Hot Sun starts the record and recalls some of Wilco's noise rock leanings, sparsely seen since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, though this would feel right in place on Summerteeth ... read more

There's one glaring problem with this album. The problem we're trying to solve is that there are great songs and there are mediocre songs, then there's 50 feet of crap, and then there's One (Blake's Got a New Face).

This album is frustrating to listen to because every song here has potential to be great, but only three really execute on that potential. The songs in question (Mansard Roof, A-Punk, Campus, & maybe Walcott if I'm feeling generous) are absolutely ... read more

holy shit it's actually that bad 😭😭😭 never let this guy near a woman

I'm on just about my sixth full listen of Leaves Turn Inside You as I write this, and I still can't find the words to begin to describe this album. There is no album I want to hear more than this, and honestly, every other album seems kinda pointless in comparison.

This album is without a doubt a challenging listen. I wasn't even sure if I enjoyed it the first couple times. I was well-prepared for the initial shock to wear off and leave me wondering why anyone would listen to ... read more

God I love this so much, this is just pure joy turned into audio waves. The 1980s brought the world a lot of mediocre pop albums but this is not one of them. One of the best pop albums I've ever heard.

I've come to terms with the fact that Pond may never really come close to Man It Feels Like Space Again again, and frankly—though I'm not going to pretend to have a comprehensive Pond knowledge—a lot of their stuff since then has felt kinda lifeless and uninspired, save for a few fleeting moments on the likes of Daisy and Sweep Me Off My Feet. I was expecting something similarly bland coming into their newest LP, as I wasn't wowed by any of the singles, but I was ... read more

Loved the harrowing instrumentation on this, especially when they really let loose near the end of Washer and Good Morning, Captain. I also really enjoyed when Brian McMahan sung, which I wish he did more often here, although the spoken word parts were cool and sufficed.

I wasn't expecting to enjoy this at all for some reason. I think I thought it would be twice as experimental and avant-garde and a lot of people would be pretending to like this but this is definitely actually enjoyable. ... read more

It's hard to not draw similarities between this and Fishman's 98.12.28, both are some of the most celebrated live albums of all time that explore post-rock, psychedelic, and shoegaze/dream pop themes with a 40+ minute epic capping off the album. Of course 98.12.28 is already one of the best albums I've ever heard, but this might just be better.

To this point, I had not listened to any Parannoul before, so I had no idea what this would be like. It goes without saying that I think ... read more